The week begins with big news out of the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, where Apple made three major announcements. - The iCloud will provide...
0 replies - 14946 views - 06/06/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Bixo Labs shows how to use Solr as a NoSQL solution for big dataMany people use the Hadoop open source
project to process large data sets because it’s a...
3 replies - 68159 views - 04/04/11 by Ken Krugler in Articles
More free ebooks from Manning have just arrived! This time, Manning publications has given us 10 free coupon codes for "Hadoop in Action" ebooks. ...
1 replies - 14092 views - 02/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Mark Reinhold just posted the new community bylaws draft for the Open JDK. Mark Wielaard, a Red Hat engineer, posted his feedback in the comments and Simon...
5 replies - 28528 views - 02/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Having grown out of a need to easily deploy Hadoop clusters in Amazon S3 and EC2, the open source project Crane has added Clojure-based webserver, database...
0 replies - 8950 views - 11/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
A new beta release of NetBeans 7.0 is the first to provide JDK 7 support, allowing developers to choose Java 7 (still in development) as their target platform...
1 replies - 27742 views - 11/23/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Hadoop
Map/Reduce model is very good in processing large amount of data in
parallel. It provides a general partitioning mechanism (based on the
key of...
1 replies - 9100 views - 11/23/10 by Ricky Ho in News
Tweets coming out of the weekend's QCon conference revealed Oracle's plan for a premium JVM that comes with a price tag. Adam Messinger, the Oracle VP of...
4 replies - 23871 views - 11/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A new survey on Hadoop suggests that companies using the Apache project's utilities (which include Hadoop Commons, ZooKeeper, HDFS, Hive, MapReduce, etc.) are...
0 replies - 8574 views - 10/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
The Mercurial version control system reached its 1.6 release this month, and is available for download here. The DVCS sports two major new features in 1.6. ...
2 replies - 13084 views - 07/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Mozilla quietly pushed the first beta release of Firefox 4 this week, with no feature lists or announcements yet. If you've been using 3.7 then there should...
2 replies - 12867 views - 06/29/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Along with their first commercial offering, Cloudera is unloading a bunch of new features into their Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop (CDH), which has now...
0 replies - 6943 views - 06/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Managing Hadoop servers can be a pain, but Puppet makes it easy. The open source server config automation software makes the sys-admin's job a breeze, even...
0 replies - 8724 views - 06/27/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
The Mozilla Labs Test Pilot platform is designed to collect structured
user feedback through Firefox to analyze how people use the browser and
the...
0 replies - 9097 views - 06/08/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Today the Apache Software Foundation graduated five sub-projects and one incubator project en masse to Top-Level Projects. Mahout, Nutch, Tika, Avro, and...
0 replies - 13772 views - 05/04/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
